Example sentences of "[adj] by [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lymphocytes that enter the site could achieve this by competing with the invader , thereby lowering the level of nutrients and raising the level of the products of metabolism locally , for example making the environment more acid . |
| 2 | They do this by acting on the experience mode of establishing truth , and , given the uncertainty associated with any economic analysis relating to a company 's future , experience of a crisis is probably far better at getting us to reassess our schemas and scripts than is rational analysis in times of stability and success . |
| 3 | explain this by looking at the political reasons why many women do not receive the pensions that would raise them economically ; that is , they are excluded from key decision-making structures . |
| 4 | We can see this by looking at the hydrogenation of cyclohexene . |
| 5 | They do this by sucking on the hair and twisting it . |
| 6 | They do this by waiting for the mother to leave the nest . |
| 7 | The Royal Commission sought to rectify this by returning to the twenty-four hour yardstick as the general rule . |
| 8 | Could you exploit this by starting with the soundtrack without the picture ? |
| 9 | ( Do this by pencilling over the side of the paper , turning it over on to the icing and then pressing gently over the lines again . ) |
| 10 | I countered this by intermixing with the transoxides . |
| 11 | Sociologists chopped off childhood and most of adulthood from their interviews , and oral historians neatly matched this by chopping off the whole later life . |
| 12 | Pointer starts to move L or R. Follow this by turning in the same direction a maximum amount — at any one time — of 5°. 6 . |
| 13 | They could do this by interfering with the transport of NGF along the fibre ; as in this experiment , the application of extra NGF directly on the cell body could help to stop the damage . |
| 14 | If the rocks in your tank suffer from all-smothering algae I have found they can be kept clear by scrubbing off the algae then putting them in the oven or under the grill until they are thoroughly dry . |
| 15 | And it was of no help to the Scottish Protestants that on 8 August , in the instructions given to that experienced diplomat of the 1540s , Sir Ralph Sadler , now sent north to make a comeback in the Scottish political scene , the English were encouraging the idea of being anti-French and anticipating their outspoken memorandum of the 31st by warbling about the need for government by someone of the blood of Scotland . |
| 16 | Some are funded by grants-in-aid ( such as the Training Agency ) ; some by statutory levy ( such as the Horserace Betting Levy Board ) ; some by annual grant ( such as the Health Education Council ) ; some by departmental vote ( such as the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work ) ; some by drawing on the National Loan Fund ( such as New Town Corporations ) ; and some by charges for services ( such as the Agricultural Marketing Boards ) ( Rhodes , 1988 , p. 129 ) . |
| 17 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 18 | ‘ Excellent , ’ applauded Mrs Alderley , and amused Theda very much by tiptoeing across the hall to the front door , casting guilty glances over her shoulder as she went . |
| 19 | This becomes clearer by looking at the first two stanzas . |
| 20 | It is often possible to restrict these by cutting into the ground with a spade along the face of the hedge , doing one side at a time in alternate years . |
| 21 | Last term , he took the Quakers into Division Three by storming to the fourth division championship . |
| 22 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that rule 21 of the Family Proceedings ( Children Act 1989 ) Rules 1991 required justices to give reasons and state their findings of fact on making orders under the Children Act 1989 ; that where a party appealed their order , justices could not remedy their failure to comply with rule 21 by supplying to the appellate court a more detailed statement of reasons and findings of fact ; and that , accordingly , the appellate court could only consider the reasons given by the justices at the time of the decision ( post , p. 527A–C , E–G ) . |
| 23 | SIMON PARKE , the 17-year-old Yorkshireman , made the selectors feel a little more comfortable by qualifying for the World Open here yesterday . |
| 24 | She brushed aside criticism at the Party Conference of 1946 by asserting of the different types of school : If the teachers get the same pay , if the holidays are the same and if , as far as possible , the buildings are as good in each case , then you get in practice the parity for which the teachers are quite rightly asking . |
| 25 | He also said there was as much chance of a player becoming injured by falling down the stairs as playing for Essex , but admitted there was a conflict of interest which he hoped to resolve in the very near future . |
| 26 | They told him they had heard that the doctor had managed to avoid them all by driving into the lamp post . |
| 27 | For a moment the noise was indescribable , much of it contributed by McAllister , who set up a keening cry , and , in endeavouring to make matters better by dabbing at the debris on Mrs Darrell 's lap with a damask napkin , made them worse . |
| 28 | There is no popular support for that and there is no evidence that policing is made more effective by tinkering with the membership of the police authority . |
| 29 | But the Left claims that the Chancellor is simply pandering to the far-Right by tampering with the asylum laws . |
| 30 | Making the complex variable purely imaginary by putting in the Laplace transform means that the signal is again being analysed into just sine and cosine waves . |